Survival Lessons, Alice Hoffman
Survival Lessons, Alice Hoffman
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Survival Lessons

Author: Alice Hoffman

Narrator: Xe Sands

Unabridged: 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2013


Synopsis

Fifteen years ago, Alice Hoffman received a diagnosis that changed everything about the life she’d been living. Most significant—aside from the grueling physical ordeal she underwent—was the way it changed how she felt inside and what she thought she ought to be doing with her days. Now she has written the book that she needed to read then.

In this honest, wise, and upbeat guide, Alice Hoffman provides a road map for the making of one’s life into the very best it can be. As she says, “In many ways I wrote this book to remind myself of the beauty of life, something that’s all too easy to overlook during the crisis of illness or loss. There were many times when I forgot about roses and starry nights. I forgot that our lives are made up of equal parts sorrow and joy, and that it’s impossible to have one without the other. . . . I wrote to remind myself that in the darkest hour the roses still bloom, the stars still come out at night. And to remind myself that, despite everything that was happening to me, there were still some choices I could make.”

About Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including The Book of Magic, Magic Lessons, The World That We Knew, Practical Magic, The Rules of Magic (a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick), the Oprah’s Book Club Selection Here on Earth, The Red Garden, The Dovekeepers, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, The Marriage of Opposites, and Faithful. She lives near Boston.


Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on July 05, 2018

okay, bitches, i'm off to fight cancer again! thanks to everyone who has been kind to me, and i'm sorry i've been so distracted lately. this is not the kind of book i would ordinarily read - on first glance, it seems like the kind of touchy-feely sentimental stuff i tend to avoid because i am a robo......more

Goodreads review by Angela M on April 04, 2021

Years after her breast cancer diagnosis, beloved author Alice Hoffman started out this beautiful little book as a letter to herself, reflecting on some of the things she wished she had guidance on about how to survive that trauma, “to remind myself of the beauty of life.” Fortunately for us, she sha......more

After listening to the audiobook of Survival Lessons, narrated by Alice Hoffman, on Hoopla I was in awe of Alice Hoffman’s gift for writing, especially about this delicate, sensitive and personal subject. Alice Hoffman has a very unique and wonderful gift. When a diagnosis of breast cancer slapped h......more

Goodreads review by Jon on February 08, 2019

A powerful look at how to cope with a life altering condition (breast cancer) while still trying to live in the here and now; to be able to see the light when surrounded by shadowed questions is a lesson that Alice shares with the reader in a clam yet urgent way.......more